This giveaway is now closed! The winner is comment #27, Robyn P. Apparently she didn’t want the cooler, so the new winner is comment #10, Suz! Congrats!

When asked if I’d be interested in doing a review on PackIts, I jumped at the chance. I keep seeing their commercial on TV and thinking to myself “how cool!” I can’t tell you how many times I have been packing my kids’ lunches and trying to figure out how to fit a big old ice pack in along with the sandwich box, the juice box, the snack, the fruit.. ugh! So frustrating! On top of that, my kids kept on throwing their ice packs out by mistake.

Well, no more of that! PackIts fold up nice and compact and go right in the freezer. They’ve got gel packs built into the sides and will keep food cool for up to 10 hours, unlike those darn ice packs I was using that are warm by the end of the day- if they are even still around til then!

If your kids are anything like my four year old, a warm lunch bag by the end of the day meant a wasted half a sandwich. He never finishes it all! Now, he can eat the remainder of his sandwich as an after-school snack because it’s still cold and fresh.

I let my kids pick their prints. Hailey chose Gidget and Keegan chose Robots. It took them forever to decide which prints they wanted- there are so many to choose from and they’re all so pretty! Look how vibrant the colors are- so cool! They fold up so small and take up very little room in the freezer.

They are plenty big enough for my kids’ lunches which included a sandwich, a juice, a pack of cookies, and fruit.

Look at those happy babies! They love their PackIts!

PackIt also offers many other sizes of coolers. They have a picnic cooler with enough room for food for a family of four, they’ve got shopping bag coolers so you can get your groceries home nice and cold. They’ve also got a mini cooler and my personal favorite: wine cooler bags big enough to accommodate one or two bottles of wine.

This is going to be perfect to take a chilled bottle of wine to the lake this summer. Plus, that print? LOVE.

This is the mini cooler, which I thought was going to be awesome to take a water and a yogurt with me to my one in-person class, which is a three-hour long lecture. But alas, I haven’t been able to make use of this mini cooler. Why, you ask? Because, despite its pink prettiness, my husband has absconded with it. It is exactly the right size for his sandwich for work. He had been putting his sandwich (or other miscellaneous cold food) in a much larger cooler with an ice pack, which was taking up most of the room in his backpack. He works 12 hour shifts with an hour commute either way, so he basically needs to take a full day’s worth of food. This mini cooler works perfect for him. What I need to do is order him a more manly one (the black plaid is cool!) so I can take this one back.

We really love our PackIts. We’ve been using them for a couple of weeks now and I am impressed with the durability. They wipe down easily with a damp cloth, so they always look new and clean. Plus, they’re so cute- I especially love the Robot one. It’s gotten many compliments! If you have small children, the mini cooler is an excellent idea for keeping bottles cool, or storing healthy snacks to eat on the go- yogurts, cheese, cut veggies- much healthier alternatives to the mom-purse staple of crackers or cookies!

So, without further ado, let’s have a….

Giveaway!

The winner will receive one PackIt personal cooler (the lunchbox) in a pattern of their choosing.

To enter: Like the PackIt facebook page. Comment here telling me you’ve done that.

For additional entries:

• Donate to my Relay for Life team. Each $10 donation earns you one additional entry for the giveaway. When you donate, comment once per each $10 increment of donation. (So, if you donate $30, comment 3 separate times.)

• Tweet about this giveaway. Leave me the link to your tweet in the comments. This is only good one time, for one entry.

The giveaway ends Sunday, February 19th at 11:59 PM PST.  The winner will be chosen using random.org and will be announced here, as well as e-mailed.  If they don’t respond within 48 hours, a new winner will be chosen.  US and Canada residents only, please.